The Filthiest Joke Ever Hidden in a Children's Movie

[snopes]

Comment: Is this true?

http://www.cracked.com/quick-fixes/t...ildrens-movie/

[rockland6674]

Anthony Scibelli is a handsome stand-up comedian and comedy writer.

Nope, no chance that this article is a joke. No chance at all.

[fitz1980]

Roald Dahl really did write an raunchy adult book called "My Uncle Oswald in 1979." But both the book "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory" and the movie adaptation "Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory" predate the publication of that book.

Hence it's not a dirty joke slipped into a kids' film. It's use in "My Uncle Oswald" is a dirty reference to a fictional fruit name that he created years earlier & and I believed used in at least one other story.

Plus even in-universe it could make sense. People use food items as slang terms for "private parts" all of the time in the real world. Melons, bananas, clams, huevos (the Spanish word for eggs, but in slang terms also means testicles.)

[RealityChuck]

Dahl wrote as bunch of adult stories (which are far superior to his children's books); My Uncle Oswald is an expansion of his story "Bitch."

But it's not a dirty joke; Charlie and the Chocolate Factory predated My Uncle Oswald by a couple of decades. "Snozzleberries" seems to have been made up for Charlie; at most, Dahl is making a sly reference to the children's book many years later.

[Richard W]

Why does he need to point out a fanciful later meaning of "snozzberry" anyway, when the script itself has the children licking plums and bananas?

[Gutter Monkey]

Just because one character uses the word 'snozzberry' as a euphemism for a penis doesn't mean that every use of that word is also euphemistic. There's a whole bunch of slang terms for penises that are otherwise perfectly normal words and even foodstuffs: weiner, meat, noodle, frank n' beans, etc..

If you swap in a new word then the quotes become "The meat tastes like meat!" and "I grabbed him by the meat," so yeah, that article is really reaching.

But I can see his point, it was a sly dig from Dahl.